Resolutions - Is Sugar *Actually* Unhealthy?
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Donuts, cupcakes, lattes, and cookies–sometimes it seems like the best things in life are full of it: the sweet, delicious thing we call sugar. It’s one of the first places we look to when we’re trying to make a “lifestyle change,” and also one of the first places we look to when we need a pick-me-up. Some scientists say that sugar is akin to a poison, giving rise to diseases like diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Others say, it’s not actually that bad. So what’s the truth? This week, we talk to Professor Jim Mann from the University of Otago in New Zealand. Is sugar bad for us? Are all sugars the same? Should we even be giving up sugar at all? Find out on our sweetest episode yet.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to our New Year's Resolution series, today we have an extra sweet episode |
| 0:08.0 | for you. |
| 0:09.0 | Hold on you, let me just finish my pre-recording peanut butter cup just one second here. |
| 0:13.2 | Eddie, unbelievable. |
| 0:15.0 | He is having a peanut butter cup on our episode about sugar and on that note, a few past |
| 0:20.5 | years. |
| 0:21.5 | I'll take one too. |
| 0:22.5 | I just need a little fuel before we record the episode. |
| 0:26.5 | I mean, there's so many peanut butter cups, so maybe it's not that bad. |
| 0:28.9 | It'll be fine. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:30.9 | Okay, well, we'll see how you feel at the end of the episode. |
| 0:33.6 | One of the most common New Year's resolutions that we make is giving up sugar. |
| 0:38.2 | So we wanted to find out whether or not sugar is actually unhealthy. |
| 0:42.5 | On today's episode, sugar, is it as bad as people make it seem? |
| 0:46.2 | Or maybe it's fine? |
| 0:48.2 | I don't know. |
| 0:49.2 | How bad is that sneaky caramel macchiato that you have once a week, asking for a friend, |
| 0:53.6 | of course. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm Yuna Jada, and I'm Dr. Eddie Phillips, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. |
| 1:02.4 | And you're listening to Food We Need To Talk, the Scientifically proven Swedish podcast |
| 1:06.8 | around. |
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